EUGENE G. MAURICE
5725 Spring House Way					Home:  (615) 371-8935
Brentwood, Tennessee 37027				Fax:   (615) 377-0433
E-mail:  maurice.gene@worldnet.att.net


CAREER OBJECTIVE AND SUMMARY

A senior-level management position that will utilize my expertise in project management, business systems development and technology integration.  Nineteen years in information technology, primarily in the insurance industry, qualify me for such a position.


BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

1987	to 1997 WILLIS CORROON CORPORATION - Nashville, Tennessee
	
Director, Special Projects	(1995 to 1997)

Responsible for developing and planning the procedures and infrastructure necessary to re-focus the staff and environment in the Operations Department in order to prepare for the changes brought on by new technologies.  Also responsible for developing and implementing an EDI strategy for the worldwide organization. 

Some Major Accomplishments:
•	Established and coordinated an integrated disaster-recovery 	plan utilizing an overseas hot site
•	Completed a project to the requirements for an enterprise-	wide imaging / document management solution
•	Developed and implemented corporate-wide EDI strategy for 	critical data transfer, resulting in improved control, flow, 	and timeliness of information
•	Developed plan and organized resources for improved client 	server technology, utilizing the NT operating system within a 	mainframe environment 

Director, Systems Development	(1987 to 1995)

Responsible for all phases of system development and maintenance in support of the business units within the Wholesale and Specialty Sales Group of Willis Corroon.  Acted as the 
Information Services account representative to these business units; activities included managing multiple project staffs, budgeting, strategic planning, scheduling, and coordination with other Information Services functions.  Business systems supported 
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included Group Life & Health Claims and Administration, Worker Compensation Claims Payment, Re-insurance Brokerage Administration, Health Care Management System, and Wholesale Brokerage Policy Management System.

Some Major Accomplishments:
•	Managed implementation of an in-house workers compensation 	system resulting in an annual savings of $600,000
•	Prepared an affiliate organization for transition to local 	management and support for a re-insurance brokerage 	administration system
•	Led selection process and directed implementation of a 	project management software system, resulting in consistency 	of project planning across 17 separate project groups
•	Consulted on the development of requirements for a new 	Surplus Lines Brokerage system and participated in selection 	of outside development vendor
•	Negotiated consolidation of four separate 401K record-keeping 	software licenses into a single contract, for a corporate 	cost saving of $250,000
•	Developed and implemented an Information Systems cost 	allocation and charge-back methodology
•	Directly involved in successful response to RFPs and sales 	presentation process on a number of key workman's 	compensation accounts
•	Directed conversion and implementation of a vendor-supplied 	group life and health administration and claims processing 	system, resulting in improved efficiencies, reduced 	overall costs, improved information and timeliness


1978 to 1987  HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION - Chicago, Illinois

Manager, Claim Systems	(1985 to 1987)

Responsible for all maintenance and enhancements to three separate claim processing systems; traditional BC/BS, comprehensive major medical, and a dental claims processing system.  Duties included direct and indirect supervision, project planning, staff scheduling, business needs analysis and integration with other system components.




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Supervisor, Basic Claim System	(1982 to 1985)

Supervised a staff of programmers and analysts in the maintenance and management of a large-scale batch and on-line claims processing system.  This system supported all claims payment functions for the primary line of group coverage with 2,500 on-line users.

Senior Systems Analyst	(1978 to 1982)

Primarily responsible as a project leader for the design, testing, and implementation of major enhancements to an existing claim processing system.

1969	to 1978  ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF RAILROAD - Chicago, Illinois

Senior Internal Auditor	(1972 to 1978)

Performed EDP audits of the railroad's various accounting and operational systems.  Also performed financial and operational audits of the railroad, its subsidiaries, and its operations 
jointly owned with other railroads.

Accountant	(1969 to 1972)

Accomplished various accounting duties in the Accounts Receivable and Payroll Departments.


TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
•	DEC VAX and AXP platforms using the VMS operating system; 	these systems operate as two-tiered client server 	applications using COBOL on the VAX for the business logic 	and presentation manager and Ingres/SQL as the RDMS
•	PC based client server applications using Visual Basic as the   	presentation manager and communicating with Ingres databases 	running on the VAX system
•	IBM mainframe environment using the MVS operating system and 	CICS; application languages included both COBOL and BAL using 	BDAM and VSAM file structures
•	Have been involved with PC based technology since the 	inception in the 1980's, with an in-depth understanding of 	how to integrate PC based application software with mainframe 
	based business applications

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MILITARY	

United States Marine Corps - Honorable Discharge    1966 to 1969


EDUCATION	

South Suburban Community College, South Holland, IL  Accounting


REFERENCES and SALARY HISTORY

Available upon request
